Originally Posted by
woojink
Wow, I guess I see things completely differently from you.
Yes, I am assuming that you are a normal and able bodied person with no medical issues preventing you from sitting in a window seat. If that in fact is false, then please feel free to elaborate if you wish. I don't think my assumption of you being a normal able bodied person is an unreasonable one.
Given that, you feel it is, at first glance, more of an inconvenience for you to move to a window seat than give a parent easier access to a disabled child. Yes, there is one parent that already has access, but you are saying that the inconvenience for you (an assumed normal able bodied person) to move to a window seat trumps that of a parent (second parent, I know) to sit closer to a disabled child.
So yes, my position is that I strongly disagree with you. My only assumption that I made is that you are a normal able bodied person with no medical need to sit on an aisle. Given that assumption, I say the needs (real or potential) of giving close access to both parents for a disabled child SEVERELY trumps your need to be in an aisle.
Is it mere inconvenience that forces to you insist upon an aisle seat or is there a medical or otherwise debillitating reason you must avoid the window?
As mentioned above, I nor anyone else should be required to justify or disclose a reason for refusing a seat change to a window seat. I said above that I would be more likely to try to change to a different flight than to sit in a window seat on this flight; you can make what you want of that fact. My only suggestion is that you not immediately assume everyone considers this requested seat change to be a mere "inconvenience" and that it is not unreasonable to want to know more about the father's situation before doing something that would likely cause me to change flights.